Vigilance and Tranquility, Honesty and awareness

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Take a partner and hold in your hand his little hand finger. Start to move and twist and turn your partner as he works to avoid getting tensed up and of course avoiding harm. Work slowly as it is very easy to break the little finger and as such it is a cause and a… Read More Honesty is effective

Sit on your behind and more to the squat. Walk the movement back in your head and note if there was any freedom in the way your eyes were fixed or aligned to the actual or personal horizon. Now relax back to sitting and repeat the drill moving first your breath and than your relaxed… Read More Follow your eyes

Take a partner and stand first face to face and have him reach to touch you using a hand or foot or anything else and you work to not be there and then confirm with your partner that you knew where he or she were going for. Repeat this a few times and switch roles.… Read More

Take a repetitive action you do such as sharpening a blade on a stone or simply bouncing a ball against the wall and repeat the action 100 times. The drill is not the movement but avoiding getting lost in the movement. Let your breath lead the movement and make each of the movements an action… Read More Avoiding getting lost

This solo drill takes about half an hour and involves a zip of water. Fill your mouth to the lower lip level with water and start walking. Breath in through the nose and exhale as best as you can through the mouth. From time to time stop and squat down and look around (Do this… Read More

Changing environment drills: 1 Take your rifle and LBE and crawl under your Jeep or whatever vehicles you may have. If you get stuck under, learn to remove and change the gear around you and learn to make your world more than your immediate environment (look around you and note the people and other things… Read More

Here is a list by category for infantry soldiers: Basics of movement: 1. Slow walking (a step means to move all of your body and not just moving your mass from one leg to another, both legs should be under you for you to move freely) giving each step 60 breaths and giving it at… Read More For the soldiers

A very simple but important drill. When we become afraid or startled we tend to bring back the neck inside like a turtle. To become aware and to clean this tension out so we can move freely as a whole lie on your back with your legs extended and together. Slowly bring all the parts… Read More Effort without intent is a dead end

Take a backpack on your back or a suitcase in your hand and walk in a crowd while trying to minimize contact with others. Work with a partner or a few on moving with the backpack while avoiding people who are coming at you and dealing with people trying to grab and hit you. consider… Read More

Progress comes in small steps but realization of it comes in leaps and bounds of imagination once we are clear enough to realize where we are and what we can know from the vantage point. For example you work on moving with your partner for a while on merging with his levers to avoid becoming… Read More